TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 7pm – POETRY
WINTER SOLSTICE READINGS
An Open Reading Moderated by Ray Garman
Tagged: open mic
TONIGHT – 7pm – Winter Solstice Readings
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Tuesday – 11/24 – 7pm – Lynn Levin & Rob Wright
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 7pm – POETRY
Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
LYNN LEVIN & ROB WRIGHT
Rob Wright has been a regular contributor to the magazine Big City Lit since 2001. He was awarded Fellowships in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2005 and 2007. His poetry has been published by Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Headwater Press, and in the magazines Big City Lit and Siren’s Silence. He has read his poetry at the First Person Arts Festival in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Studio 34 in Philadelphia, and at Poets and Writers, the Gotham Book Mart, and the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City.
Lynn Levin’s third collection of poems, Fair Creatures of an Hour, has just been published by Loonfeather Press. “These poems are a charm against solemnity,” says Eleanor Wilner. “So much excitement, such a rush of vitality!” says Elaine Terranova. Lynn Levin’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Boulevard, 5 AM, Lilith, Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, and on Garrison Keillor’s show, The Writer’s Almanac. The recipient of two grants from the Leeway Foundation, Lynn Levin teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and at Drexel University where she also produces the TV show The Drexel InterViewTM.
Tuesday – 11/17 – 7pm – Poets & Prophets Presents Bob Small
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7pm – POETRY
Poets & Prophets Presents
BOB SMALL
Bob Small will debut his newest Poetry Chapbook, Swarthmore, Nov 28th, 2008, a series of interlocking Poems about Thanksgiving Eve of that year, with illustrations by both local and New York City Artists, etc.
Bob Small has presented Feature Readings at the following Philadelphia locations; Bacchanal, Barnes & Noble, Borders, The Clark Park Festivals, Highwire Gallery, The Middle East Restaurant, Nexus Gallery, The Philadelphia Ethical Society, The Painted Bride Arts Center, Robin’s Bookstore, and The University of Pennsylvania, among many.
He has read in Pennsylvania, including The Booksource (Swarthmore) GodFreydaniels (Bethlehem), Harvest Bookstore (Media), The Jumping Cow (Swarthmore) and The Mad Poets Food Festival Readings (Media). He has also read in New Jersey, New York City, Washington, DC.
He is the author of many multi-Poem Broadsides, The Thanksgiving 11-27-08 Series being the most recent (now collected in a Chapbook). His previous chapbooks include El Otro Lado (with Maralyn Lois Polak), On Watching America Die, Small Steps and Toes (with Lamont B. Steptoe), and The Unapoet.
He has been published in The Bucks County Writer, Dot Dot Dot, Heat Magazine, Philadelphia Poets Magazine, among many. He is a Founder and President of Poets and Prophets,(www.poetsandprophets.com) a 26-year old Poetry Organization which presents Poetry Readings in Delco and Philadelphia. He currently lives in a semi-retired state in Swarthmore, Pa., with his wife and their canine and feline significants.
9/24 – OPEN MIC – 8pm
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 8pm – OPEN MIC
OPEN MIC
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.” – Lewis Carroll
“I am the Walrus” – John Lennon
OPEN MIC @ Moonstone – 8/12 – 7pm
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
